Extreme rainfall and illegal campaigning by election officials are the greatest problems reported by electoral observers at Sunday’s referendum on peace with the Marxist FARC rebels. Four million voters, 12% of the electorate, are…
586,000 election overseers, chosen on Monday, will monitor the upcoming presidential elections and work to prevent voter fraud says the body responsible for managing the logistics of Colombia’s elections.
Colombian authorities reported a 90% drop in illegal interference from armed groups during Sunday’s congressional elections, when compared to 2010.
An independent Colombian electoral observation agency said Saturday that it will have a force of more than 3,700 observers supervising Colombia’s congressional elections Sunday.
Colombia’s minister of defense announced Friday that over 260,000 members of the national security forces will be deployed throughout the country to monitor Sunday’s congressional elections.
National elections are still a few months off in Colombia, but already the allegations of untoward practices are pouring in. Charged with monitoring Colombian elections, the International oversight body Electoral Observation Mission…
With Colombia’s October 2011 local elections approaching, bodies involved in the electoral process held a forum to discuss technological solutions to voter fraud, newspaper El Espectador reported Tuesday. The deadline…
The National Electoral Council (CNE) officially declared Partido de la U candidate Juan Manuel Santos the winner of Colombia’s May 30 first round presidential elections, despite allegations by independent researchers…